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The many layers of Daniel Craig

By Donna Freydkin
www.usatoday.com
April 25, 2005
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Daniel Craig subscribes to the Billy Crudup school of media relations: Keep your personal life under wraps and let your work speak for you. The low-key Daniel Craig stars as a charismatic gangster in Layer Cake, which opens in New York and L.A. on May 13.

"I'm private, not secretive," says Craig. "It's my personal stuff."

The British actor, busy promoting his gangster drama Layer Cake, reveals that he lives in London. Reads and travels. Has a daughter, 12, from an earlier relationship, neither of which he'll discuss. Has been cast in Steven Spielberg's top-secret drama about the Palestinian terrorist attacks at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

And that while the British press has thrown his name around as a possible James Bond contender, there's nothing to report yet. (Related story: In search of the next 007)

"I've been in Texas filming, and I got some funny messages on my telephone going, 'Congratulations!' " says Craig. "It's not a bad position to be in, so I'm not complaining. But there's really nothing to say as yet. I don't know what the deal is."

He already has the endorsement of Cake director Matthew Vaughn, who says that "Daniel would be fantastic" as the suave spy.

Craig, 37, insists that in real life, he's no smooth, sultry playa, like Bond or the unnamed drug dealer he plays in Cake.

"That's acting!" he says. "If he was suave, that was total luck."

But Craig pulls off panache to perfection in Cake, producer-turned-director Vaughn's stylish directorial debut detailing the misadventures of a cocky British gangster immersed in the underworld. The movie opens in New York and L.A. on May 13.

Vaughn, 34, Guy Ritchie's producer on Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, decided to helm Cake after Ritchie dropped out to direct Revolver. With encouragement from wife Claudia Schiffer, Vaughn gave directing a shot because "the worst thing that happens is, I (messed) it up." He cast Craig as his slick lead because "he's brilliant," says Vaughn.

"He's a young Steve McQueen and I wanted to show that. As a first-time director, I wanted to make sure I hired people who were good actors. That was really important, to make my life easier. Daniel is so on the cusp of becoming a big star, and I hope this is the catalyst."

Not so fast, says Craig. He's "cautiously optimistic" about potentially becoming a household name. "I try to make sure there are other things in life that are more important," he says. "If I'd been given a dollar every time someone said, 'This is the big one for you,' I'd be very rich by now."

But while Craig may be a reluctant movie star in the making, he already looks like one, with his golden tan, chiseled face sporting that perfect scruff of stubble and his athletic body shown off to perfection in tight jeans and a white T-shirt. His most high-profile roles to date? The philandering Ted Hughes to Gwyneth Paltrow's Sylvia Plath in 2003's Sylvia and Angelina Jolie's old flame in 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Is Craig, who once compared self-promotion to going to the dentist, ready to be, say, the next Brad Pitt?

"He's ready for it, whether he wants it or not," says Vaughn, who's equally ambivalent about being in the spotlight. "He really takes his profession seriously and is a pretty private guy. He didn't become an actor to be famous. He became an actor because he loves acting."